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...elevation and intensity, The Roof falls short of the best neorealistic films, but in technical skill and in the subtlety with which it makes its points it ranks among the finest. Director De Sica humanizes the harsh material of the story with his easy gaiety and gentle humor, masterfully plays the Svengali to his pickup cast of raw amateurs-whom he inspires not to act but to live out their feelings with an artless art. Essentially, Neorealists De Sica and Zavattini have not changed their cinematic method, but they seem to have revised their social and moral philosophy. In their...
...Doctor Sax, which was written in 1952, comes from the apparently bottomless hopper that the author had filled before his bestselling On the Road was published. Perhaps because it contains no such adult concerns as marijuana, Zen Buddhism or women to dull his exuberance, it is Kerouac's best book...
Room at the Top (British). The career and comeuppance of a young Englishman on the make, based on John Braine's bestselling novel. One of Britain's best pictures in years...
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